Show #8126 2019-12-30 (taped 2019-10-22) Regular

Karen Farrell game 3.

Contestants

Ilene Lederman — a band director from Boynton Beach, Florida

Scott Firestone — a web developer from Denver, Colorado

Karen Farrell — a political consultant from Woodbridge, Virginia (whose 2-day cash winnings total $35,601)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Karen $4,200 $9,200 $20,400 $22,000
3-day champion: $57,601
$23,200
29 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Scott $1,000 $2,000 $2,000 $1,500
3rd place: $1,000
$2,000
10 R, 4 W
Ilene $1,600 $3,400 $7,000 $4,001
2nd place: $2,000
$7,000
9 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

FASHION BRANDS TV MOVIES BEHIND THE LITERATURE FAMOUS WOMEN "C_MENT" POND
$200 [30]
The iconic pony representing this brand appeared on a Ralph Lauren shirt cuff in 1971
Polo
Karen
$200 [13]
2018 saw "The Last" of 6 of these comedy disaster TV movies on SYFY that combined saltwater carnivores & storms
Sharknado
Karen
$200 [29]
Edward Lansdale, a U.S. officer in Asia, was a model for the novel "The Ugly" this & possibly for "The Quiet" this also
American
Karen
$200 [7]
A peak in Oregon's Wallowa Mountains is named for this Shoshone interpreter
Sacagawea
Scott
$200 [8]
Jesus said the first one is "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart"
commandment
Karen
$200 [15]
A real pond in this urban park is where E.B. White's Stuart Little is victorious racing his sailboat
Central Park
Scott
$400 [21]
This company's LV monogram is also its logo
Louis Vuitton
Scott
$400 [11]
In 2006, the first "High School Musical" gave this actor his breakout role
Zac Efron
Ilene
$400 [25]
William Brodie, craftsman by day & criminal by night, was the inspiration for this Robert Louis Stevenson tale
The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Karen
$400 [6]
October 7, 1950 is the official founding date of her own order, the Missionaries of Charity
Mother Teresa
Ilene
$400 [28]
The Dalai Lama has tweeted "a sense of" this "is crucial to being happy"
contentment
Karen Scott
$400 [27]
Families feeding birds have led to the nickname "world's biggest bread soup" for Tjörnin Pondin this Icelandic capital
Reykjavik
Scott
$600 [18]
Coco Crush is a jewelry collection from this brand
Chanel
Karen
$600 [10]
Later to play U.S. President Bartlet, in 1974 he played the title deserter facing death in "The Execution of Private Slovik"
(Martin) Sheen
Scott
$800 [2]
Many think Daniel Webster's summation at a murder trial inspired this man to write "The Tell-Tale Heart"
Edgar Allan Poe
Karen
$600 [4]
In 1946 Emily Greene Balch, a colleague of Jane Addams, was a co-winner of this award first given in 1901
the Nobel Peace Prize
$600 [23]
After we get our hot dogs, time to slather on the mustard at this station
condiment
Karen
$600 [26]
"The world's largest open-air shopping center", ALA Moana in this city, has had koi ponds since it opened in 1959
Honolulu
Scott
$800 [19]
This footwear brand turns up often in hip-hop lyrics; the Notorious B.I.G. & Smif-n-Wessun called them "Timbs"
Timberlands
Karen
$800 [12]
One of Roger Moore's final films was this 2017 TV remake, but Adam Rayner, not Roger, played Simon Templar
The Saint
DD $1,000 [1]
Kevin Kwan said he based this 2013 bestseller on the Kwan, Oh & Hu families
Crazy Rich Asians
Karen
$800 [5]
In 1968 Annie Leibovitz bought her first one of these, starting her on the road to fame
a camera
Ilene
$800 [22]
A retailer who buys goods from a wholesaler "on" this pays only for what he in turn can sell, returning the unsold items
consignment
Ilene
$800 [17]
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow rowed with his kids on Fresh Pond in this Boston-area university city
Cambridge
Karen
$1,000 [20]
The leather Kat Saddle Bag from this brand features its horse & carriage motif
Coach
Ilene
$1,000 [14]
Based on the real life of a troubled fashion model, HBO's "Gia" made this actress a star
(Angelina) Jolie
Scott
$1,000 [3]
Mr. Ramsay in her 1927 novel "To the Lighthouse" is a portrait of her father Leslie Stephen
Virginia Woolf
Karen
$1,000 [9]
At age 15, this 16th century girl reluctantly allowed herself to be put on the English throne; bad move
Lady Jane Grey
Karen Scott
$1,000 [24]
A window that swings out on hinges
a casement
Karen
$1,000 [16]
On those warm, sunny London afternoons, take a dip in the bathing ponds of this famed Heath in the north of the city
Hampstead Heath

Double Jeopardy! Round

EDIBLE POP CULTURE THEATER TERMINOLOGY 17th CENTURY HISTORY WORD ORIGINS SPACE SCIENCE THE QUOTABLE RALPH WALDO EMERSON
$400 [12]
In a 1982 film a trail of Reese's Pieces draws this marooned title character out from hiding
E.T.
Karen
$400 [24]
A walk-through is a very early one of these; a run-through comes later
a rehearsal
Karen
$400 [27]
This 1611 book had what were known as "He" & "She" editions, after variants in the last words of Ruth 3:15
the King James Bible
$400 [25]
Latin for "salt" gives us this word for how much you get paid each week
salary
Karen
$800 [11]
A coma is the hazy atmosphere of gases that forms around one of these as it nears the sun
a comet
Ilene
$1,200 [17]
"The sky is the daily bread of" these body parts
the eyes
Karen
$800 [8]
In this 2007 animated film, a rodent named Remy dreams of becoming a French chef
Ratatouille
Karen
$800 [23]
The 1970s & '80s were the heyday of this meal-&-a-show type of venue, hiring movie stars like Tab Hunter & Cyd Charisse
dinner theater
Ilene
$800 [16]
A 1609 law in this country banned Moriscos (Muslims baptized as Christians) & shipped 300,000 of them to north Africa
Spain
Scott
$800 [26]
Its name is from a word for "little fly"; a 2019 book says it may have killed half the humans who ever lived
mosquito
Scott Ilene
DD $1,000 [22]
Named for the man who first observed them, the "Galilean satellites" are the 4 largest moons of this planet
Jupiter
Karen
$1,600 [18]
"Hitch your wagon to" one of these
a star
Karen
$1,200 [7]
On "SNL" Dan Aykroyd once portrayed this Emmy-award-winning chef having a little difficulty preparing a chicken
Julia Child
Ilene
$1,200 [4]
An alternate performer who learns the role of a featured player just in case there is an emergency need for a substitute
an understudy
Karen
$1,200 [1]
In 1628 privateer Piet Heyn captured a Spanish fleet & put 12 million of these Dutch monetary units ($165 million today) in the treasury
a florin (a guilder)
Karen
$1,200 [13]
French échelle, "ladder", gave us this word for a ranking; try to be in the upper one
echelon
Karen
$1,600 [21]
Referring to its shape, the Milky Way is described as this type of galaxy
a spiral
Karen Scott
$2,000 [19]
"A foolish consistency is" one of these "of little minds"
the hobgoblin
$1,600 [9]
This animated FOX series features the Belcher family, who own a restaurant
Bob's Burgers
Ilene
$1,600 [5]
A projecting portion of a stage in front of the curtain is known as this, also a term for a protective garment worn in front
an apron
Karen
$2,000 [3]
He got up late on New Year's Day 1660, ate some turkey & began writing his diary
(Samuel) Pepys
Karen
$1,600 [14]
This word from the German for a child prodigy was first used for musicians
wunderkind
Karen
$2,000 [20]
A 1958 paper by Max Faget showed that a spacecraft could fire these to slow itself down & allow re-entry to the atmosphere
retrorockets
$2,000 [10]
Thisactor's cookbook featured Food Fit for the King and You, and included Russian, Gypsy and Thai recipes
Yul Brynner
Scott
$2,000 [6]
From ancient words meaning "before the stage" comes this arch found in a theater
proscenium
Karen Scott
DD $3,000 [2]
This Virginia Native American died in 1618, but wars that bore his name were fought on & off between 1622 & 1646
Powhatan
Karen
$2,000 [15]
This 13-letter synonym for infantile paralysis comes from words meaning "gray marrow" & "inflammation"
poliomyelitis

Final Jeopardy!

1950s PEOPLE

In a New Yorker profile, he said, "Where I like it is out west in Wyoming, Montana, & Idaho, & I like Cuba & Paris"

Ernest Hemingway

Scott "Who is Kerouac?" — wagered $500
Ilene "Who is John Wayne?" — wagered $2,999
Karen "Who is Hemmingway" — wagered $1,600

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